Automatic water-elevator



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Automatic Water Elevator.

No. 239,572. Patented March 29,-I 88I.

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J. H. TAYLOR. Automatic Water Elevator. No. 239,572. Patented'March29,188i.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. TAYLOR, OF GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA.

AUTOMATIC WATER-ELEVATOR.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,572, dated March29, 1881.

Application filed June 28, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1', JAMES H. TAYLOR, of Greeuville, in the county ofGreenville and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and ImprovedAutomatic Water -Elevator; and I hereby declare thefollowing to be afull, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to theaccompanyin gdrawin gs, making part of this specification, and in which-Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of my machine having a portion of thecasing cut away to show the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a verticalsectional view on the line m m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of theoscillating bucket.

My invention relates to the automatic elevation of water, in which theprinciple of the siphon is utilized; and my invention consists in acertain combination and arrangement of devices, as hereinafter describedand specifically claimed, whereby I produce a siphon in which more wateris raised in the short arm than is necessary to be discharged from thelong arm of the siphon, in order to make the operation of the siphoncontinuous, and the surplus water raised is passed into and retained ina reservoir to be subsequently utilized.

In order that those skilled in the art may make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe the exact manner in which I have carried itout.

In the said drawings, A is a cylindrical casing, made air-tight at allits joints. At one side of the center, by means of a vertical diaphragm,B, a segmental chamber or compartment, 0, is formed, covered by ahorizontal diaphragm, D, of a greater are than the crosssectionaldimension of compartment (J. Another vertical diaphragm, F, rises fromthe edge of diaphragm D almost to a level with the top of the cylinder,and has at its center a lip or spout, a, to carry water from thecompartment 0, formed by diaphragms D and E. A short pipe, G, passesfrom a point opposite the upper edge of diaphragm E down throughdiaphragm D into chamber 0. Another pipe, H, of equal height with pipeG, passes through diaphragm D, near its center, and has its lower end,I), contracted and a hole, d, closed by a valve, 6, near its junctionwith diaphragm D,

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for a purpose hereinafter described. From the bottom of compartment Gdescends a pipe, I, which is the discharging-arm of the siphon. Passingthrough the bottom of the cylinder, and back of diaphragm B, is a pipe,K, which terminates on a level with the upper edge of diaphragm E afterpassing through diaphragm D, and is the elevating-arm of the siphon.Through the bottom of the cylinder, at the opposite side fromcompartment 0, passes a pipe, L, provided with an outwardly-openingcheckvalve, f.

r A valve-operating rod, g, pivoted at h to rod 1' across the cylinder,is connected at one end to valve 6, and at the other end supports thedepending vertical rod Z, carrying a float, M, which moves freely on itwithin the limits between a stop, 70, and the valve-rod g. A propertension, by spring or otherwise, is placed on valve 6, so that it willremain stationary in its normal condition-41. 6., when not acted on byfloat M through means of rods g, i, and Z.

In compartment 0, directlybeneath thelower end of pipe H, is asemi-cylindrical oscillating bucket, P, pivoted at n. This bucket ismade, as seen in Fig. 1, with a central partition, 1),

dividing it into two water-receptacles, p p,.

with diagonal bottoms q q falling from the center toward thecircumference. The covering R of the oscillating bucket has an opening,r, on each side and next to the bottom, alternately opened and closed byswinging valves 2., provided with curved arms 15, which come in contactwith stops 8 s, to operate the valves as the bucket oscillates. Thebucketis pivoted, so that in its extreme oscillation, controlled bystops W W, the upper edge of the dividingpartition is thrown from sideto side, and the water from pipe H falls alternately in receptacles pand 19. When one receptacle is full the weight of the water depressesthat end of the bucket, and as the end comes down the valve t opens andallows the water to escape into the compartment 0, whence it rushes downpipe I.

In making the machines the holding capacity of compartment 0 should beabout equal to the amount required to fill pipe I.

The operation of the apparatus is as follows: The short arm of thesiphon-pipe K being immersed in the water-supply, air is exhausted,after the manner of ordinary siphons, through the discharging-arm I fromthe air-tight vessel formed by easing A, through the long-arm pipe I,until the water flows up pipe K and into compartment 0; thence it flowsthrough the small orifice d and pipe B into one receptacle of theoscillating bucket until the receptacle is snfficiently full to tilt thebucket and throw the charge of water to the bottom of compartment 0,whence it rushes out through pipe I, thereby further exhausting the airin the vessel, and causing the water to continue-to flow up pipeKintocompartment 0, and out of the orifice into the other receptacle ofbucket P, which tilts, in turn, when filled, and throws another chargedown pipe I. In the intermission between the oscillations of bucket Pair is being drawn down pipe I by the preceding charge of water, andthis air is caught by the succeeding charge of water, and passes downbefore it. I The dischargingarm of the siphon is therefore filled withalternating bodies of water and air, and at its lower end dischargesalternately water and air. The capacity of the inflow through the shortarm of the siphon being much greater than the capacity of flow throughorifice d in pipe H, the water soon fills up compartment 0 and overflowsthrough spout or lip a into the main cylinder, and continues to flow asthe pan oscillates until the main cylinder fills up sufficiently forfloat M to strike rod 9 and force down valve 0 and stop the flow throughorifice (1. Immediately pipe I empties itself and air passes up throughit and into compartment G,and thence'throngh pipe G to the maincylinder, which, being filled with air, allows the pressure of the waterin the main cylinder to force open checkvalve f and flow out to anydesired reservoir through pipe L. As soon as all the water has A, incombination with a siphon having a water-elevating arm lifting a greaterquantity of water than is discharged through the long arm, for thepurpose set forth.

2. The cylinder or tank A, provided with compartments 0 O, andoscillating bucket P, in combination with elevating-pipe K, pipes G, H,and I, valves 0, with rods g, h, and Z, and float M, and thedischarge-pipe L, all constructed, arranged, and operated as set forth.

JAMES H. TAYLOR.

Witnesses It. K. EVANS, W. F. MoRsnnL.

